詹彥道

Virtual enterprising is viewed as one of the most promising business strategies for manufacturing industries to meet global competition. The essence of virtual enterprising is to integrate the resources from different enterprises based on of the integration of value-added activities across enterprises through enterprise alliance. Therefore, the management of supply chain is the basis for virtual enterprising, and an effective process control that ensures the distribution of the right resources to the right places in the right time plays the key role in supply chain management. The development of a supply chain control system involves not only the technologies of communication, information and software engineering but also managing the characteristics and processes of a satellite set of allied enterprises. The development of an effective supply chain control system is still a technical challenge for virtual enterprising. This research presents a systematic approach to the development of a process control system that is able to support the supply chain management of virtual enterprising. The prototype supply chain control system development is done in three parts. The first part focuses on the characterization, definition, and modeling of supply chain management of virtual enterprises. The second part concentrates on design of the configuration of a virtual enterprise-based supply chain control system. And, the third part deals with the design and modeling of the architecture of the system. The results of this research will facilitate the management of supply chain in virtual enterprising and thus help achieve the goal of virtual enterprise.